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Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
Hattie Ellis · Harmony; First Edition edition
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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“We have chosen to ?ll our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.” —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)Sweetness and Light is the fascinating story of bees and honey from the Stone Age to the contemporary... |
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Training the Best Dog Ever: A 5-Week Program Using the Power of Positive Reinforcement
Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz · Workman Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Training the Best Dog Ever, originally published in hardcover as The Love That Dog Training Program, is a book based on love and kindness. It features a program of positive reinforcement and no-fail techniques that author Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz used to train the White House dog, Bo Obama,... |
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Walking with Peety: The Dog Who Saved My Life
Eric O'Grey · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Eric was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed diet attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes due to his weight, Eric went to a new doctor, who surprisingly prescribed a shelter dog. And that's when Eric met Peety: an overweight, middle-aged, and forgotten... |
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Brenda Maddox · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting... |
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DK Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals
Chris Pellant · DK ADULT
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy and accurate. |
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LOST WOODS - The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Linda Lear · Beacon Press; 1ST edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Here is a trove of Carson writing never before published or collected, uncovered by Linda Lear, author of the recent and acclaimed Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Included are examples of her early and often remarkable nature writing for newspapers and for the Fish and Wildlife Service;... |
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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Douglas Brinkley · HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelts crusade on behalf of Americas national parks the same qualities that made TR so fascinating a figure—an astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style and an inexhaustible... |
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Teh Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs
icanhascheezburger.com · Gotham
Format: Print book
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The authors of I Can Has Cheezburger? return with an awww- inspiring threequel in their blockbuster LOLcat series. The Web site icanhascheezburger.com, the Internet's depot for LOLcat pictures, has already spawned two New York Times bestsellers: I Can Has Cheezburger? and How to Take... |
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